HISTORICAL ARTICLES

    Dinosaurs Suffered From Cancer Dinosaurs may have also suffered from cancer — scientists discover fossil with diseased bone. In 76 to 77 millon years ago,Scientists from Canada's Royal Ontario Museum and McMaster University have identified a malignant bone cancer in the fibula of a Centrosaura apertus fossil. The plant eating,single horned dinosaur ,which roamed the Earth and was diagnosed with osteosarcoma,for the first timr everin a dinosaur . The deformed bone was originally thought to represent a healing fracture.However ,a re-evaluation of the bone revealed unmistakable signs of advanced bone cancer ,although scientists say that this particular dinosaur did not die from the cancer . In most cases,paleontologists are at least 66 million years too late to give dinosaurs medical exams .The living animals perished long ,long ago.But every now and then ,fossil hunters uncover a bone with signs of injury or disease what experts call pathologies. And in the case of a particular b

THE WAY OF THE SHOGUN   The Way of the Shogun was hiking into the Kiso Mountains of Japan and it also had the dreamlike beauty of an anime fantasy. In 1810 ,A Japanese guidebook was written included dire warnings about supernatural threats,Solitary wayfarers met on remote trails might really be ghost,or magical animals in human form.     For two centuries the Nakasendo Way was a major pedestrian route that connected a string of villages providing lodging and sustenance for the shoguns, retainers and daimyo, or feudal lords, travelling between Tokyo and Kyoto. The trail and its villages were largely abandoned in the late 1800s as the power of the shoguns faded and as travellers between the two capitals began making the trek by train or automobile. But in the 1960s Tsugamo and several other villages along the route began campaigns of rediscovery. Modern buildings were removed, and those remaining from the Edo period (1600-1868) were restored or reconstructed. Streets were repaved with pe